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No. 729,553. PATENTED JUNE 1 1. 03 W. A. DEMMON.

TRANSFORMATION SCENE.

APPLICATION IILBD JAN. 8, 1901.

H0 MODEL.

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u 0. WIN PERKIns 'o ,n arFoRn ooNtt l T'RANSFQRMATION" s'C'sN Q CHW :PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,553;datd (1115,52, Application filed January 8,1901. SerialNO. 42,509. (Nor an T0 rtZZ whom it may oancern' Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. DEM oN,

My invention relates to the application of the principle covered. by my former patent, No. 537,441, to use as a toy and advertising novelty, but in construction and manner of operating essentially difiering andentirely' new and original.

It consists of a novelarrangement and combination of parts whereby two pictures may be brought into view alternately in such manner that while-any certain portion of the first "picture is disappearing'the same portion of the second is appearing and taking the place just vacated by the one disappearing,

In the drawings which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 represents the first picture in view, while in Fig. 4 is shown the top half of the second picture wher'ethe top half of the half of vertical sectional views taken on line X of A.

Fig. 5 shows the various parts separately, drawn on. a reduced scale.

In the construction I employ a frame I, of cardboard, sheet metal, wood, or other suitable material, in which is a rectangular opening large enough to show the picture and to which both ends of a strip of cloth or other flexible material on which are depicted the picscribed.

tures is securely attached at 2 3. 4 is another piece of cardboard, sheet metal, wood, or other suitable material, in which and extending almost across it is the narrow slit .5. It also hasthe long handle-piece 4*, which extends slightly below the frame I and is used to operate the moving parts, as hereinafter de- .6 is a piece of cardboard, sheet metal, wood, orothersuitable is designed to take up the slack in the cloth as it isited t hrorughlthe slit.5 bymoving 4 up and dow ti. 'ilhe' cloth issecurely attached to o.

United States, residing in the I city of New York, State of New York,- have reference being material which slides up and' downon the back 'of 4 when in operation and,

7 isa narrow strip fastened at its ends :to

4, hiding from view the slit 5 and the cloth where it passes through slit.

In Fig. 2'the cloth isshown fastened to the frame I at point 2. It passes down and through slit 5, then up over the top of 6, then down around the bottom of 6 and up through slits 5, then down to point 3, where it is again fastened to I.

Fig. 3 is the same sectional view shown in 2, except that all the working parts have moved down to position they occupy when showing the second picture.

In Figs. 2, 3, 4 the partsare shown slightly separated; but in operation they lie close tog: miner and are heldin position by an outer envelop or box. (Not shown.) Fig. 4 is a frontview with righthand side removed on line X, Fig.1, showing handle 4 and slit 5, with strip 7 and piece .6 moved one-half way down and position occupied when showing half of each picture. i

The entire machine is to be cased in an envelop-box or other suitable. covering, having; a rectangularopening to correspond with the opening in frame I. By this arrangement, as shown in Fig.2, the first picture is'in full view throughthe openingin I, and by pulling down the handle 4 the first picture disappears through the slit 5 and the upper edge of slit pulling against the fold in the upper position of cloth causes 6 to be pushed down, which, being attached to the'cloth, in descending pulls the lower portion with it, thus drawing the lower picture back out of view through ,slit 5, forming a fold in. the lower portion of the clothsimilarto that justibeing fed through, the slit from behind and above, bringing the second picture into view as the first disappears.

While I have shown this to be operated by the handle 4, I do notwish to confine myself to this mode of operation, as handle 4 may be dispensed/with and a string, wire, or other suitable material be attached to-either 4 or 6, by which theycould be pulled down and up, or handle 4 may be made a part of and attached to 6. a r

Having thus described myinvention, what 'Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 1 In a deviceof the character described,

the combination ofa movable portion having a een'tral slot through-which the ribbon adap ted to bear the pictures passes and a strip ex- 7 tending over the said slot secured to the plate at its ends and raised between the said ends. 5 2.- In a devicevof the character deseribed, the'eombination with' a suitable wrapper or easing, of a fixed plate having an opening therein, a strip or ribbon of greater length than the'said' fixed portion or plate, a movxo able-plate, a slot in said movable plate throngh v which-the intermediate portions of the strip are passed, pictorial representations on the said strip adapted to be alternately presented before the opening in the fixed plate by the movement of the said sliding plate; the ends 15 of said strips being secured near the ends of the fixed plate.

' 'WILLIAM A. DEMMQN.

Witnesses:

.LUOILE DYER, S; G. 13002. 

